What I think is the problem is a faulty sensor. It has to be. There are two stacks of computers next to each other, 8 of which are identical SFF computers, the 9th an old server. The top computer on the stack of 6 computers on the left is 70-75C, as well as all 5 computers under it. The top computer on the stack of 3 on the right is reporting 55-57C but the computer under it (middle of three) is reporting the same 70-75C. The bottom computer on that stack is an old server and is not folding at all. So, 7 of 8 identical computers are reporting 70-75C temps and ONE is reporting 55-57C... Sounds like the oddball one is wrong.

I dunno, I'm going to forget about it and rue the day I ever looked at that temperature link.

OK, serious question for ya, notfred. I thought I would try out playing with VM to run on my couple of windows boxes and use your VMWare version. I set it up just fine on my first windows box with a c2d 3GHz, and its folding away with 1 instance. I put it on another windows box with a c2d 2.5GHz and for some reason its running two instances. Well, I figured that would be OK. It may do twice the work in twice the time so its not a net loss. Well, its actually taking a lot longer to do two instances than the one only doing one. They have been running over 24 hours now, and the 3GHz single instance has finished one WU and is now %53 done with its second. The other computer, both instances are at %48 on their first WU's. Is there any way to foce that other computer to only do 1 instance and have both cores working on it?

In 32bit mode, it will run an instance per processor. In 64bit mode it will run an SMP per SMPCPUS parameter. I'm puzzled as to the difference, is one running 64bit and the other 32bit? Do you have both processors exposed to the VM on both machines?

Don't just go by how long it takes for a WU, they are worth widely differing points. Use something like FahMon to measure PPD.

Hey notfred, just wanted to say thanks for creating something that "kicks booty"!!! I've been running diskless for quite awhile now and my PPD have really shot up. I expect it to really go up as soon as I get this other Q6600 running.....

haysdb:1) If you are running in a VM then it will get the time from the host and not via NTP. I suspect Windows is supplying local time through to the VM and not UTC, there might be a switch on VMWare or whatever you are running to tell it to use UTC for the guests.

2) I don't backup the core or the fah6 so they get downloaded each time, I do have a request open to do this, but it's not my next priority.

3) I believe Stanford recently released a new Core_a2 version because the old one was corrupting checkpoints. Hopefully as your boxes pick up that it should go better.

4) Request for -oneunit and also request to shutdown completely clearing out the old WU are my next things to work on.

Oddly enough right now only one instance has the "error" but if I let them run long enough they'll both get it. I have allocated a massive 1536mb of ram to EACH instance to see if this would help but it does not.

Any info on this would be appreciated, I'm not sure if it's even an issue. Is it just a cosmetic thing?

Well I let it sit all night turned off and tried this morning, worked fine and started right up. However.....it's done it again already, and giving the same message. It's onboard LAN and I'm sure the connection is good, how do I fix it??And while I have your attention, isn't there a newer version of the Linux SMP that we/you could be running??

caintry_boy: If it works sometimes and not others then I'm not so sure as you are that the connection is good. Newer version of the Linux client is a Beta and I've been burnt before with betas expiring at the most awkward times for me to do an update. Once they release a non-beta unified (SMP and non-SMP) client, I'll update to that.

guitarstar26: Several people have reported it. I think it may be more a bug in the way I lay out the disk than anything. I really need a root cause to dig in to it.

In other news I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 last night, still say the same broken gcc-4.3 issue, switched the link back to gcc-4.2 but I think the build still doesn't work. Will be working on that first over the next little while.

Wondering if there's any way to backing up with TFTP without using its DHCP server. I want to keep my own router configuration using DHCP. The Folding@home box is actually a Server 2008 workstation with Hyper-V enabled. It is running some other VMs, but mostly it is dedicated to VM doing SMP folding.. it loads up the diskless iso and just goes. I'd like to backing up to another machine just in case that one goes down.

Evaders99 wrote:Wondering if there's any way to backing up with TFTP without using its DHCP server. I want to keep my own router configuration using DHCP. The Folding@home box is actually a Server 2008 workstation with Hyper-V enabled. It is running some other VMs, but mostly it is dedicated to VM doing SMP folding.. it loads up the diskless iso and just goes. I'd like to backing up to another machine just in case that one goes down.

At one point I had a setup where I rolled my own DHCP+NAT in a separate subnet for a diskless folding VM. I used Windows 2000's built-in TFTP server (apparently after 2000 they removed the server component) and Microsoft's DHCP and DNS servers. The key to doing that is option 066, "Boot Server Host Name". The description for it is "TFTP boot server name". It basically tells the DHCP server to return that extra information for DHCP clients so it can talk TFTP to that server. So in theory, if your DHCP server in the router (consumer grade routers won't cut it, probably should be a full-blown Linux/Windows router) support 066, you should be able to disable the DHCP portion of Tftp32 and add a bit more configuration to your existing DHCP. If your router can't do that, then there are now 2 ways:1. Use Windows file sharing to the VM and roll your own periodic backups on the work folder, most likely with your own scripts.2. Use a subnet with your own DHCP+NAT+TFTP similar to my setup. This will be most beneficial if you have multiple VMs. This also allows you to pick the most appropriate router and TFTP server software for you.

The Model M is not for the faint of heart. You either like them or hate them.

Hello NotFred. I just got turned onto your diskless folding solutions and I have to say thank you very much. I have been using RHEL4 and the install time and setup is just not fun. As most of my systems are in VMware of one flavor or another the VM Appliance is a godsend.

One thing I would like to ask for is listed above. Is there a way we could get the -oneunit command setup on the VM appliance and/or the other folding options you have? I for one would appreciate it as I have some systems that I can only use on the weekends and it is difficult to monitor them all the time as some are at remote locations.